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Brazil approves Delta and LATAM Joint Venture Agreement
Harry S. Johnson- September 18, 2020Delta Air Lines and LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its affiliates (‘LATAM’) received regulatory approval yesterday for their trans-American Joint ... Read More
IATA: Proposed environment tax will destroy 150,000 aviation jobs
Harry S. Johnson- September 18, 2020The International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned that proposed new environmental taxes in France will fail to decarbonize the aviation ... Read More
RwandAir restarts its London and Brussels flights
Harry S. Johnson- September 18, 2020RwandAir will resume flights to and from London and Brussels to Kigali from October 3, 2020, as it reinstates its ... Read More
Air Canada offers free COVID-19 insurance to international travelers
Harry S. Johnson- September 18, 2020Air Canada today announced that it is including complimentary COVID-19 emergency medical & quarantine insurance for eligible customers booking round-trip ... Read More
Lufthansa Group: €2.8 billion in airline ticket refunds already paid
Harry S. Johnson- September 18, 2020In the current year, the airlines in the Lufthansa Group have so far reimbursed around 2.8 billion euros to a ... Read More
Delta Air Lines CEO: No involuntary furloughs in US
Harry S. Johnson- September 17, 2020Delta Air Lines' CEO Ed Bastian issued the following memo to Delta employees, regarding involuntary furloughs for flight attendants and ... Read More
Israel preparing to welcome Gulf visitors
The Media Line- September 17, 2020Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are in advanced stages of establishing direct aviation routes and concluding bilateral agreements ... Read More
Harvard: Masks worn throughout travel offer significant protection from COVID-19
Harry S. Johnson- September 17, 2020Face masks are an essential part of a layered strategy to keep customers safe and reduce transmission of COVID-19 throughout ... Read More
Emirates re-starts flights to Luanda from October 1
Harry S. Johnson- September 17, 2020Emirates' African network will expand to 15 destinations with the restart of Luanda, Angola from 1 October. The airline continues ... Read More
Sweden becomes a front-runner in sustainable aviation
Harry S. Johnson- September 17, 2020Sweden has an ambitious target of being fossil-free by 2045. As a part of the initiative, the Swedish Government announced ... Read More
UNWTO backs strong, united plan for global tourism
Harry S. Johnson- September 17, 2020The Executive Council of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has met in-person and virtually for its 112th session. This was ... Read More
ITIC Tourism Investment Summit follows WTM in going virtual
Juergen T Steinmetz- September 16, 2020After WTM announced they are going virtual, ITIC management has announced today that our annual tourism investment event in partnership ... Read More
Tanzania Opens its Skies to Kenya-registered Airlines
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- September 16, 2020Tanzania has lifted its ban on Kenyan registered airlines, opening a new cooperation over the East African skies after a ... Read More
United Airlines adds antimicrobial spray to cabin-cleaning measures
Harry S. Johnson- September 16, 2020United Airlines today announced that it is adding Zoono Microbe Shield, an EPA registered antimicrobial coating that forms a long-lasting ... Read More
United Airlines resumes Key West flights from Chicago and Newark
Harry S. Johnson- September 16, 2020Beginning October 1 United Airlines is to resume daily nonstop service to Key West from Chicago O’Hare and New Jersey’s ... Read More
Delta launches service at new Salt Lake City airport
Harry S. Johnson- September 16, 2020Delta Air Lines Flight 2020 departed for Atlanta from Salt Lake City International Airport’s stunning new Concourse A, marking the ... Read More
Americans’ confidence in safety of domestic travel rises sharply
Harry S. Johnson- September 16, 2020The latest findings from Travel Intelligence's Travel Intentions Pulse Survey Wave VIII (TIPS) and Travel Safety Barometer, which are designed ... Read More
Aeroflot’s Board of Directors approves additional share issue
Harry S. Johnson- September 16, 2020Russia's PJSC Aeroflot announces the results of an extraordinary Board of Directors meeting held on 15 September 2020 with absentee ... Read More
Lufthansa: 15 new summer destinations from Frankfurt in 2021
Harry S. Johnson- September 16, 2020Lufthansa is consistently expanding its offering of flights to tourist and leisure destinations from Frankfurt. During next year’s summer Season ... Read More
FRAPORTHands Over New Air Cargo Warehouse to Swissport
Juergen T Steinmetz- September 15, 2020After a construction phase of just under one year, today (September 16) Fraport handed over the keys for a new ... Read More
Passenger rights group asks Congress to demand transparency from Boeing and FAA
Harry S. Johnson- September 15, 2020Airline passenger rights group FlyersRights.org submitted a letter to US Congress to ask for transparency from the FAA and Boeing ... Read More
1 in 3 Americans believe travelers from high-risk COVID-19 states should be banned
Harry S. Johnson- September 15, 2020Due to COVID-19's easy and rapid infection rate, some states across the US have implemented strict travel regulations in an ... Read More
Russia’s Aeroflot resumes flights to Moscow from ‘several countries’
Harry S. Johnson- September 15, 2020The spokeswoman for Russian flag carrier Aeroflot announced today that the airline has started selling tickets for passenger and cargo ... Read More
Air Astana Flights Resume to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
Linda Hohnholz, eTN editor- September 15, 2020Air Astana is starting to re-open its Central Asian network with flights from Almaty to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, ... Read More
UNWTO: International tourist numbers down 65% in 2020
Harry S. Johnson- September 15, 2020International tourist arrivals plunged 93% in June when compared to 2019, with the latest data from the World Tourism Organization ... Read More
Honolulu Mayor wants tourists back while Governor Ige says: Wait!
Juergen T Steinmetz- September 15, 2020Honolulu Mayor Caldwell brought up an interesting point at a press conference outside Honolulu Hale today when asked by eTurboNews ... Read More
Airbus Foundation delivers humanitarian aid to Beirut
Harry S. Johnson- September 15, 2020Immediately after the recent blast in Beirut, Lebanon, Airbus provided satellite imagery to analyse the damage and helped government analysts, ... Read More
It’s official: World Travel Market London will go virtual!
Juergen T Steinmetz- September 14, 2020Forget the rush on the tube, forget expensive hotels! Reed Exhibition, the organizer of the World Travel Market London decided ... Read More
Airbus marks five years of US aircraft production
Harry S. Johnson- September 14, 2020Airbus commercial aircraft production in the U.S. has reached a significant milestone: five years since aircraft production began in the ... Read More
IATA: Canada needs to consider safe options and re-open borders
Harry S. Johnson- September 14, 2020The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urges the Canadian government to support the COVID-19 testing initiatives of Air Canada and ... Read More
Boeing and Etihad Airways lift sustainable aviation fuel to next level
Harry S. Johnson- September 14, 2020Boeing and Etihad Airways concluded testing on the aerospace company’s 2020 ecoDemonstrator program last week with a cross-country flight using ... Read More
KLM and TU Delft present successful first flight Flying-V
Harry S. Johnson- September 14, 2020The scale model of the Flying-V - the energy-efficient aircraft of the future - has flown for the first time. ... Read More
Lufthansa Trachtencrew flights take off again this year
Harry S. Johnson- September 14, 2020Even if the Munich Oktoberfest cannot take place as usual this year, Lufthansa is holding on to the beautiful tradition ... Read More
Pegasus Airlines launches flights to Karachi, Pakistan
Harry S. Johnson- September 14, 2020Turkey's digital airline, Pegasus, continues to expand its international network with the launch of its new Karachi route. Flights to ... Read More
Salt Lake City may become the new Crossroads of the World
Juergen T Steinmetz- September 13, 2020COVID-19 is the number one travel and tourism conversation in the United States with the epidemic destroying a little bit ... Read More
Alitalia abandons all flights from and to Milan
Mario Masciullo - eTN Italy- September 13, 2020Alitalia discontinued all flights from Malpensa, the international airport in Milan. Alitalia will no longer fly from Milan due to ... Read More
